I made a custom block for xcGallery module. Basicly its a module for navigation through gallery like it has in xcGallery header. Since custom blocks' smarty tags don't get parsed i had to make a new module block.
added the right stuff into xoops_version.php, put the block in the right dir, updated the module, when that didn't work, reinstalled the module. checked permissions, compared data in database and its should all work, but it doesn't.
i'm running XOOPS 2.0.9.2 php and MySQL are the latest for RH 9.0 xcGallery v 1.1

any help would be greatly appriciated since i've spent last 7 hours trying to figure this out

P.S.
Mysql debug shows that it doesn't even run a query for my block, but the query that determins which block should be shown checks out fine...block debug shows that my block should be loaded